sacred to V.\o men of the a -to (political division), and on no occa- 

 sion do the women or girls enter it. All boys from 3 or 4 years 

 of age and all men who have no wives sleep nightly in the 

 X)a-ha-fa-nan or in the fa-wi. Each a -to has a fa- ici building — a 

 structure greatly resembling to the pa-ha-fu-naii, and impossible to 

 be distinguished from it by one looking at the structure from the 

 outside. Thi}, fa-wi is the a'-to council house; as sucli it is more 

 frequented by the old men than by the younger."' From this it 

 will be seen that the distinction between the two kinds of houses 

 is not liere so rigid as in Patau, for young men are allowed to 

 sleep in the fa-ici, the council house for the elders. 



There is another small structure, which is dedicated to a god. 

 It is a club-house in miniature, being about 1 by 2 m. in size. 

 It has painted carvings on the outside and resembles a small 

 shrine in Japan, but containing no idols or things sacred to the 

 deity enshrined (PL XXXI, fig. 1). 



The boat-shed is built on the beach, where ships belonging 

 to chiefs and others are kept and from wdiere they put out to sea. 



Dwelling-houses are scattered in the forest by twos and threes, 

 but the road connecting them wdth each other is some 2 m. wide 

 and paved w^ith stone, a credit to the islanders. Indeed, Patau 

 has far better roads than those in the East Caroline Islands. In 

 Palau, there are stone platforms here and there. These are rest- 

 ing places, and flat stone pieces on the platform, wdiich are some 

 70 cm. high, serve as the back of a chair wdien the natives take a 

 rest, as in Yap. Stone pieces of the same nature also will t)e noticed 

 near the chiefs' council house. The places where the cliiefs address 

 their subjects are also provided with these stone chairs. C. CI. 

 Seligmann^ says that in the villages on the coast of British New 



1 C. G. Seligmann, " The Melanesians of British New Gniaea," p. 463 ; Pis. LVir, LVIII. 



